Cosfest 2011 (Ash's side)

What the hell blogger closed on me now I have to retype everything curse you blogger

First off I shall start with the mandatory thanks-

Thank you to everyone who bought our merchandise, whether to support us or because you genuinely liked our stuff;

Thanks to all those who ordered commissions, we're really glad and truly humbled that you liked our work enough to commission us :)) (Also I owe some of you your commissions still, I'm sorry! I haven't forgotten, I'm working on them as I type~);

Thank you to all who dropped by to visit! Even if it was because you wanted to use our booth as a camping spot, haw haw haw (awkward laughter);

And finally, thank you to our amazing booth helpers, without you guys I don't think we would have survived! We were swamped.

Now have some pictures taken with my lousy phone, hooray for phuzzy fotos

Someone commissioned a picture of Rin from Ao no Exorcist, it's the first time in a long while that I've seen a main character this intriguing, Imma go check out this manga because Rin looks so damn badass.

Another commission was young Link from Ocarina of Time. I've never played this game but Link is a famous character, I've seen pictures of him floating around. Now what is shocking is that young Link is in fact wearing a dress!!!!!11 And it's a really short dress too!!!11 With knee high boots!!!1 My mind it is blown what

If you don't believe me you can go and search it for yourself, google images is your friend

One of our booth helpers, who was pretty popular with the gentlemen~

On the way home on the first day, we saw this Gintama group have dinner at some japanese restaurant, and they very nicely posed for me even though I didn't ask for their permission to take their picture.

This...thing stopped by our booth. Why, you are my hero if I ever cosplay I want to be like you and go around cosfest looking so fine

Booth mates Meijia and her brother cosplaying as me Ash Ketchum and his trusty pikachu (who has his own pokemon in the form of Choppa), they were smashingly amazing!

The lumpiest elizabeth ever and its friend

Yuyuan as Yami from To-Love-Ru, this is cuteness personified, lol

An awesome Shino stopped by! Always good to see the lesser known characters from naruto getting some love :DD

Gokudera from Katekyo :D

Yam Ah Mee was making his speech as he walked by and deigned to stop and confer blessings on our booth


Didn't get a chance to draw on the graffiti wall this year because I was so busy doing commissions, but there was this amazing picture on it, to me it's by far the best picture I have taken of this year's cosfest

Whoever you are, I salute you, you got the dynamics of team 7 down pat!

I think that's about all the pictures that aren't too blurry, dark or pointless that I have taken of cosfest. I didn't even get any pictures of any crossdressers, and there were so many this year! There were some really tall and muscular girls walking around, too bad they didn't stop long enough for me to snap a picture.

Well, uni is going to start soon (I am going to cry why are we so facking old), and the course we are going to take sounds pretty tough, so I don't know when we'll have a chance to go for any other conventions. Here's hoping we at least get to make it for cosfest every year! Definitely the con of cons.


To end this post off, here have some shit i drew ages ago

late introduction!

better late than never :B

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Edit by Ash

Well, we attended Comifest 2 on the 4th and 5th of June, thanks to all who stopped by to say hello or get our merchandise! It was a different experience from SOY C, and we had cool booth neighbours jujocraft @ deviantart who sold really cute stuff! I wish I had more money to spend on their booth, but I am but a poor student, I will get more of their stuff next time I see them. Also, we got to see Asuka!!!!! And get his amazing artbook!!!!! And take pictures with him!!!!!11

Next stop, we'll be heading for Cosfest at Downtown East on the 25th and 26th of June.



(p.s. By the way, I shall do some pimpin for merchandise to come, because Shin's Tsubasa print is very very pretty. She sold it at Comifest and will be selling it at Cosfest, I myself have a copy that is signed and I place it in a shrine and light candles in its honour everyday)



(p.p.s. I stupidly keep promising people that my range of keychains will definitely contain more characters by the time the next con rolls around and thus corner myself into only having time to do keychains -_- I think this time I'll only be adding a few since there's so little time left. [Also although my keychains seem simple it takes me a really, really long time to do one since I'm such a slow colourer and I'm very anal with details. So they end up being major time suckers, and wtf I don't even like drawing chibis!])

HELL YEAH SOY C (Ash's side of events)

This is my first time ever blogging, but here goes

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First up, a big thank you to all those who bought our stuff at our booth (Equal X, geddit, =x? We wanted :x, but it would then have been Colon X, which sounds like a movie about a radioactive organ transplant) especially to those who bought commissions off us! We're very glad and humbled that  people like our drawings enough to commission us c': For the 2 people whose commissions I have not completed , I will try my best to get them to you by next week, so don't worry :D

Anyway, have some pictures (will edit with more when I get more pictures):

Warning: the next few pictures were taken with my phone, so, shitty quality, you have been warned.

My bookmarks and keychains before they have been cut and done up

My keychains, before they have been, uh, keychain'd

Cutting my bookmarks, a surprisingly tiring business (or maybe it was just because it was 6am)

Some of my commissions (once again, thank you for commissioning me! ;u;)

Some of Shin's commissions (thank you for commissioning her!)

The view from our booth

Yesterday was my first SOY (not Shin's first though), and also the first time we attended an anime convention as booth owners and not as the usual con-goers. The experience is seriously vastly different. For one, both of us woke up late because we are so fly were too tired and had to rush to the venue, we barely had a few minutes to set up. (On the other hand, you can go at any time you want if you're not a booth owner.) I didn't get to look around at the cosplayers or the merchandise (like I usually do when I go to cons), so I didn't see much of the con except for the area around the booth (and even then not much of that, not even the people buying our stuff! [since my eyes were glued to paper most of the time]). That was something I feel a little regretful over, especially since my cousin was busy shouting cool things like 'HEY LOOK, IT'S V WITH GLASSES' into my ear.

On the plus side, we saw Cloud Strife waiting for the bus when we were leaving Ngee Ann Poly. Now that's what I call badass!

Although the day was far from relaxing, it was still awesome, ha, so don't get me wrong. I think the SOY C people did a great job organising SOY C, well done :) We also learnt a lot from this experience, so we'll be more prepared for the next con.

Oh and we'd like to thank the people who helped us at the con! Much thanks goes to Yuyuan and Goh Hong, who were there to help us set up the booth and were my sweatshoppers *v*", my cousin the King who also was a sweatshopper, and last but definitely not least, to the two sisters Shuyan and Shuhui, who are amazing salespeople, and who were so busy marketing our merchandise that they didn't even get to eat lunch and had to stand most of the time (and who also sweatshopped, they are so talented huh they can do everything~).

On another note, Shin and I will certainly be attending more cons as booth owners (we're looking at cosfest, and possibly an event called SGComiFest) before we get eaten up by uni life, so if you wanted to get some of our merchandise but didn't (and now regret it), you can probably catch us at these. We'll also be expanding and updating the range of our merchandise, both in types of products and in characters and series. For example, I'll definitely be adding Fran from Katekyo and Kakashi from Naruto as characters for keychains, so people who wanted both Bel and Fran will be able to get Bel's missing half Fran. I think we'll both be selling badges too because I like badges!


Okay, that's about it for my side.

Yeah I hope I did good on my first ever blog post, blogging is some tough shit, srsly. I am mentally drained.

(Now have some kyuubi-chakra-rasengan courtesy of Shin. Eat your heart out naruto)